Jacobson wins £50,000 (approximately $80,000) and a worldwide surge in book sales from the ensuing interest surrounding the Booker winner. The Finkler Question is a novel about love, loss and male friendship, and the modern Jewish identity. He is best known for penning comic novels such as The Mighty Walzer and Coming from Behind.

Although he has been compared to America's Philip Roth, Jacobson is seen as a very British author with a relatively low profile outside the United Kingdom.

2010 Booker Shortlist

When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier.

Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is ...
truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ...

Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children.

Andrea Levy reinvents the historical novel with her novel The Long Song, a tale of slavery and freedom in colonial Jamaica. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking.

C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.